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Caucasian Knot 2/8/2005 New bodies found in Chechnya Three people were killed and one went missing under unclear circumstances in Chechnya in the past 24 hours. The bodies of two men, natives of Bulgak-Irzu, Nozhai-Yurt district, with multiple gunshot wounds were found near a cafe on the Kizliar-Mozdok road not far from Chervlionaia in the relatively calm Shelkovskaia district of Chechnya, the republican Internal Affairs Ministry says, quoted by Caucasian Knot's correspondent. Law enforcement agents found the body of a young woman with a silk slipknot round her neck near the so-called Chernorechie water supply facility in Grozny's Zavodskoi district, Interfax says. Besides, Zalina Azamatov, a local resident, went missing in the capital of Chechnya, the Internal Affairs Ministry noted. eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 6/8/2005 Abuse in Chechnya A group of armed people abducted two young brothers resident in Alkhan-Yurt, Grozny district, from the premises of the Sabita marketplace in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district, a source with Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told Interfax. At the same time, unidentified people penetrated into the house where Israil Khajiyev, b. 1982, lives and abducted him threatening weapons the ministry noted. Armed people in masks and camouflage uniforms also abducted six residents of Serzhen-Yurt, Shali district, on 5 August, the Council of Nongovernmental Organisations says. Local law enforcement agents carried out "targeted clean-ups" in Starye Atagi, Grozny village district, the Council of Nongovernmental Organisations reports. Breaking into the house of one local resident, the military began to search for 24-year-old Timur Akhmadov, but the guy was not in at the moment. The law enforcers put forward a ultimatum demanding that his relatives should deliver the young man to the district police department. Otherwise they threatened to deal with his family. Timur Akhmadov's relatives do not know what could serve as a ground for him to be searched. They say that Timur, a graduate from the Chechen State University, had nothing to do with the military developments in Chechnya. eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 4/8/2005 Abductions in Chechnya A group of unidentified people in camouflage uniforms, armed with automatic weapons, broke into the house of Said-Selim Abdulkhanov, a local resident, in Dolinskoye, Grozny district, and brought him away on the night of 4 August, a source with Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot. Abdulkhanov is a fireman with the fifth fire unit of the republican Civil Defence and Emergencies Ministry, the source added. Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent. Military men detained six local residents in Serzhen-Yurt, Shali district, and brought them away without indicating the destination. There were searches carried out without search warrants, Radio Liberty says. Neither people from the prosecutor's office, nor representatives of the district administration attended the arrests. Three abducted in Chechnya 06/ 08/ 200 GROZNY, August 6 (RIA Novosti) - Three men were abducted in Chechnya Friday, the Chechen Interior Ministry said. Two brothers were kidnapped from a trade center in Grozny, the Chechen capital. Another young man was kidnapped from his house in Argun, Chechnya's fourth largest city 12 kilometers to the southeast of Grozny. The police are taking measures to identify and detain the abductors. Kavkaz Center Slovakia has sent three Chechen families in Russian concentration camp In Vienna it became known, that, at least, three Chechen families to whom the political asylum in Slovakia was rejected last year, after the subsequent exile from the country, were recently arrested and thrown in the Russian concentration camp of death. Thus in the concentration camp were caught all members of families, including infants. Children were separated from parents and placed in a separate children's concentration camp of death. The heads of these three families earlier already were exposed to tortures in Russian concentration camps and consequently they together with the families escaped to Slovakia. Now, due to Slovaks, Russian executioners will torture their children as well. The "fault" of Chechens in the eyes of chechen executioners is, that they asked for the political asylum in the west. Newspaper Wiener Zeitung printing in Austria has informed about it. The chairman of the Organization of concentration (filtrational) camps of prisoners (OPC(F) C) Vakh Banjev has told in the interview of the newspaper about these camps. In Russian concentration camps since 1994 has been killed 47.500 Chechens. Altogether through them have passed 125.000 citizens of CHRI, men, women, children, at an aggregate number of population of CHRI 1 million persons. The death rate in the Russian concentration camps intended for Chechens, makes up 38 %. Chechens are exposed there to wild tortures. Besides horrifying pure physical tortures from which hugely die people, Chechens subject every possible mental humiliations. They are not allowed, for example, to satisfy their daily needs. The newspaper tells about the case of Chechen Magamed B. (the full surname is not informed). Russian occupants arrested him, having come to his home in searches of his uncle. As he did not know, where his uncle was, 19-year-old Magamed was seized by executioners of FSB and have thrown him in a filtrational concentration camp. There he was subjected to "special processing" (executioners slang FSB and so forth), that is to tortures. However Magamed was silent. His family, eventually, managed to redeem him from Russian concentration camp as he was completely innocent. After the release he immediately left the Chechen Republic because it is known, that to those who at least once was arrested by Russian chastisers, they necessarily come for them again, Magamed told to the Viennese newspaper Wiener Zeitung. After the long travel on foot, completely weakened from hunger; Magamed managed to overpass Ukrainian - Slovak border. In Slovakia he immediately asked for political asylum. However on the next day he was arrested by police and given to Ukraine. The Ukrainian police flang him in prison. Magamed had spent 2 night in a cellar of the Ukrainian prison. There were not beds. He slept on an armchair. Then he together with other 14 citizens of CHRI, under police guardning, were seated on "a train of death to Russia" (so is called the separate article in the newspaper, devoted to his destiny) and were taken for punishment to the chechen executioners. Magamed managed to jump off from the train at dawn, having taken advantage of the carelessness of dozing security guards. Three days he was in hiding from the Russian chastisers, sent for his capture. Then he set out to the west. This time he safely reached Austria and asked for the political asylum which he, undoubtedly will receive, especially after the newspaper publication about his destiny. Slovakia regularly and systematically gives out the Chechen refugees on punishment in the hands of Putin's executioners. According to the order of minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Slovakia Vladimir Palko, the Slovak police is obliged under any pretexts and arraignment to refuse the political asylum to all Chechens. The statistics of asylum refusal to the citizens of CHRI is concealed by the regime. Last year the political asylum in Slovakia received only 1 Chechen from the huge number of citizens of CHRI. It is known, that only 0,09 % from all refugees with different nationalities applied for the resort, receive a shelter in Slovakia. In Austria this figure makes 20 %. Thus Chechens receive a refuge in 98 % cases. As the representative of the government of Slovakia Bernard Pritsel has declared in the interview of the newspaper Wiener Zeitung upon the questions about refugees, " 60 % of those who gives out itself to Chechens, are not Chechens. Even, if they are Chechens they do not have any basis to ask for a political asylum. All Chechens, asking for political asylum, are economic refugees. There is a war in the Chechen Republic. That is why there is a hard economic situation. For this reason Chechens go to the west". The newspaper gives an characteristic example of how the police of Slovakia makes Chechens "non-chechens" to which the political asylum under laws is not supposed. Instead of checking up the refugee's knowledge of the Chechen language, the police meaningly asks them silly questions, for confusion. Police game refers to as "check-up the knowledge of district". Ask, for example, why the bus station in Jokhar refers to as Minutka. A right answer: because, in a peace time there used to stop buses. However, this may not be known to the Chechens who were not living in Jokhar. Also it may not be known to the youth who were unable to live in the peace times at an conscious age. In any case, the absence of the right answer upon this and other similar inquisitorial questions is for Slovak police the sufficient basis for refusal to Chechens for a political asylum. As the Viennese newspaper writes, Slovakia refuses Chechens to recieve a refugee status and meaningly doom them to brutal tortures and death, because it wants to support "good economic relations" with Russia. Accordingly, in opinion of Slovakia, "Russia is the country with faultless democracy". Besides, due to purposeful false propagation of FSB and its local agency among the Slovak population, the Russian security officers managed to instill in consciousness of many Slovaks a stereotype of the Chechen as "the gangster, the terrorist and the criminal". As far as possible, this stereotype of the Chechen tries, though unsuccessfully as a whole, to instill in consciousness of the Austrians and pro-russian minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Austria Liza Prokop. As the speaker of her ministry Rauh has declared to Viennese newspaper Wiener Zeitung, "Slovakia conducts a correct policy concerning refugees". The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Austria asserts, that the Chechen refugees - "is a risk for safety of Austria". Now in Austria are about 10.000 Chechens. The Ministry of Internal Affairs declares, that "Chechens are becoming criminals", not giving thus any fact of confirmation of her lie. Besides Austrian "law-enforcement" have ostensibly noticed, that "Chechens are inclined to radical islam". Besides, any facts confirming this mere allegation is not resulted. Moreover, according to violent imagination of criminal and political police of Austria , blossomed after the unkown criminals who accomplished the explosions in London, "Chechens bear plans to begin in Austria "demolition men - suicides"". Anyway, since January, 1, 2006 all new Chechen refugees in Austria will be under threat of "the final decision" in the for of dispatch on punishment to Russia. The new Austrian law on refugees for which in parliament have voted all political parties, both ruling coalition, and "opposition" from now on will come into force on behalf of socialist party. Against the law voted only "green", having very insignificant representation in parliament. According to this law, Austria will send in the country "on the first arrival in the Eurounion", and it, for the geographical reasons, in case of Austria is almost always Slovakia, all in succession the Chechen refugees, strict according to the inner-union Dublin Contract. Earlier Austria made exception of this contract and retained "traumatized" refugees. In human language the word "traumatize" were understood as citizens of CHRI, past tortures in prisons and concentration camps of Russia . Their returning to Russia with the help and assistance of obliging Slovakia means for them death. Everyone at least once being caught in the hands of bloody executioners from the Russian terrorist organization of FSB, security officers pursue all life, yet they will not kill them. Dmitry Orlov, Austria Kavkaz Center 2005-08-09 Chechenpress Ukraine : a Secret War against Chechen Refugees Ukraine has always sympathized with the Chechen people (as, however, also to other peoples of the Caucasus , enthralled by the Russian empire). And Chechen refugees, who found a haven in Ukraine , always with gratitude noted benevolence and sympathy of the majority of inhabitants of Ukraine . During the Orange revolution Chechens most actively among other national minorities revolted for protection of validity. Almost all of them, unemployed, went out and for three weeks they were standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukrainians in the frozen Square of Freedom . Many Chechens, having almost no rights in Kiev , received nonresident revolutionaries, treated them with their tasty meal, shared their poor habitation with them... And this is the "gratitude": on the 23 rd of July, from the boarder with Slovakia point of reception of refugees they put 20 Chechens on a train and let the train accompanied by an escort (!) back to Russia ! There were families with small children among these 20. Everybody was put on the top beds, even ill people. And before that they were kept in “the center for migrants” near the city of Chop . “We were in one cell together with 17 men of different nationalities, there was no Chechen among them”, - one girl said. They gave us bread, inside of which there was a wire... The train was stopped in Kiev by employees of the office of the UVKB of the United Nations. “I could not even imagine, that they could treat people like this in a democratic state”, - an employee of the office said (a friend of mine named him Alex, but I could not reach him by phone). Due to intervention of the UVKB the United Nations they managed to take out two girls, who had already been registered. One of them, 18-years old, lost her parents; the other one, 14-years old, lost her father, and mum managed to escape to Austria , and the daughter was trying to make her way to her. The others continued their fatal way to death... “It reminded us of the deportation in 1944”, - a friend of mine told me - one of the girls, taken out from the train... Secret deliveries of Chechens to the Russian executioners began in Ukraine at Kuchma approximately from the end of 2002. Whether at the government, going to lead the country to Europe , these shameful actions will proceed?! I come from Ukraine and voted for Yushenko, I believed him, that Ukraine would become a completely civilized state, will finish with organized, secretly supported by the state, criminality... Alas, everything proceeds. Nadezhda Banchik, for Chechenpress, 08.08.05 http://www.chechenpress.co.uk/english/news/2005/08/08/06.shtml eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 8/8/2005 Two newspapers unwanted A printing house in Ingushetia has declined to print two Chechen newspapers. Further service has been denied to Chechenskoe Obshchestvo ("Chechen Society") and Golos Chechenskoi Respubliki ("Voice of the Chechen Republic"), the Extreme Journalism Centre reports. The printing house says it is out of paper and raw materials, as well as money to buy them. In connection with this, the house has given written notices to the editors of Chechenskoe Obshchestvo and Golos Chechenskoi Respubliki that it terminates the contracts for printing these newspapers entered into earlier this year. Meanwhile, the printing house continues to print the Ingush government newspapers Serdalo, Ingushetia and others. The printing house has decided to terminate the contracts under the pressure of the Ingush government, according to unofficial information. The pressure has been caused by the response of Russia's Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel with regard to an article published in Chechenskoe Obshchestvo. In this article (Chechenskoe Obshchestvo, No 14, 2005), French philosopher Andre Glucksmann says, "Russia is digging up a grave for itself in Chechnya." "About 1 million Russian soldiers have gone to war in Chechnya over the past 10 years," continues Glucksmann. "They all have been morally destroyed. They have learnt to kill, sell dead bodies, torture, and disrespect ordinary citizens. If you have learnt to do so, you will reproduce all this upon return to your country. So this is a threat to peace in Russia. What will all these soldiers do? They have a disease, which is what they do: torture and violence. They will continue to do the same, now as officers of law enforcement and security agencies, gangsters or policemen. Russia already faced this after Afghanistan, there are statistics, official surveys." An article was published in the same issue, too, that criticised Shepele's activities concerning the investigation into the Beslan tragedy and the search for those guilty of it. Shepel was also resentful of Glucksmann saying that, "if Caucasians are left alone, I think, they have a much more civilised way of living than Russians." However, shutdown is not the right way to dispute this statement, offensive as it may sound. Most, if not all, people in Russia and abroad would be glad to see a different situation in Chechnya and the North Caucasus as a whole that would in itself invalidate any such statement. THE CHECHEN-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY PRESS RELEASES (JUL. 19 - AUG. 1) PRESS-RELEASE #1376 FROM JULY 19, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Shatoy district. New shelling of the village of Pamyatoy On 18 July 2005 from 11.30 pm the vicinity of the village of Pamyatoy of the Chechen Shatoy district were subjected to shelling by the artillery of the federal forces. The shelling lasted for half an hour. None of the residents of the village suffered. (From our correspondent) Vedeno district. Release of an abducted woman On 17 July 2005 a resident of Grozny Razita (Raisa) Yaragievna Inderbaeva (born 1973) was released after her abduction that was perpetrated in the village of Elistanzhi of the Chechen Vedeno district on 9 July 2005 (see our releases No1365 from 11 July 2005 and No1371 from 14 July 2005). The details of Inderbaeva’s abduction and subsequent release are being established. It was reported earlier that on 9 July 2005 Razita Inderbaeva had been reportedly abducted by the Russian military from the house of her father situated in the village of Elistanzhi. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1377 FROM JULY 19, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Grozny. Three people are abducted in Grozny On 15 July 2005 in Leninsky (Avtorkhanovsky) district of Grozny unidentified armed people in camouflage abducted three men, Sankaev Kazbek Vatsaevich (born 1973) and Sankaev Bek Vatsaevich (born 1983) living in Grozny at the address 5 Kievskaya St., ap.41 and Usmanov Aslan Shamsatovich, a resident of the village of Shalazhi of the Chechen Urus-Martan district who lives there at 29 Gorky Street. All the three men were taken to an unknown destination. According to a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the republic, the group that perpetrated the abduction consisted of eight people and was moving around in two UAZ cars. The perpetrators seized the VAZ 2107 car with the state license number ? 474 ?? 05 belonging to one of the abducted men. (From our correspondent) Grozny rural district. Murder of a resident of the village of Chechen-Aul On 17 July 2005 a male corpse was discovered at the eastern outskirts of the village of Chechen-Aul of the Chechen Grozny rural district on the bank of the Argun River. There were four bullet wounds in his head. The law-enforcement bodies managed to identify the killed man as Zubkhadjiev Aslan Alievich (born 1974) who was a resident of the village of Chechen-Aul. (From our correspondent) Shatoy district. A contract serviceman is killed as a result of firing at the Russian military vehicles column On 10 July 2005 a group of unidentifiable people opened automatic fire on the Russian military vehicles column in the immediate vicinity of then village of Kharsenoy of the Chechen Shatoy district, according to the information obtained from a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the republic. One of the Russian contract servicemen, Drosdov Pavel Nikolaevich (born 1984) was killed. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1378 FROM JULY 19, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Nadterechny district. There is a son of the head of the district administration among people injured in Znamenskoye 19.07.2005. 18:05. The Information Center at the Russian-Chechen Friendship society has just received information that as a result of the blast in the village of Znamenskoye of the Chechen Nadterechny district a son of the head of the district administration Sultan Akhmedkhanov was also wounded. A correspondent of the IC RCFS reports Akhmatkhanov as stating that at present his son is in military hospital of the town of Mozdok (the Republic of the North Osetia) together with other wounded servicemen of the local police office. According to the reports disseminated by some Russian and Chechen media venues, today there was an explosion of a police UAZ car at the junction of the Tsentral’naya and Lesnaya Streets in the village of Znamenskoye. It happened at day time and fifteen people were killed with the blast. Eleven of them are servicemen of the local police office. Twenty four people are reported to have been wounded. The IC RCFS has information that the majority of the wounded people are civilians. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1380 FROM JULY 20, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Achkhoy-Martan district. A detained resident of Yandi-Kotar is released after brutal beating On 14 July 2005 a resident of the village of Yandi-Kotar (Orekhovo) of the Chechen Achkhoy-Martan district Usmanov Bekkhan Lechaevich (aged 18) was released after he had been detained by the service personnel of the OMON from Grozny. According to the relatives of the released man, Bekkhan Usmanov was made to get out of the car on the road between the Achkhoy-Martan and the village of Katyr-Yurt. He had been beaten up. There was a cloth bag pulled over his head. When Usamov managed to pull himself together, he stopped a passing car and people took him home. The same day at about 9 pm the young man was taken to hospital in Achkhoy-Martan district center where doctors registered numerous signs of beating-up. Usamov’s relatives told a correspondent of the Information Center at the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society that Bekkhan had been arbitrarily detained on 13 July 2005 by the service personnel of the unidentified force agency and to ken away by them to an unknown destination. The same day relatives of the detained man reported the case to the local prosecutor’s office and to the persecutor’s office of Achkhoy-Martan district. The following day, on 14 July, Bekkhan’s relatives managed to find out through their unofficial sources that he had been detained by the OMON unit from Grozny and was kept there. Later that day the young man was set free. His relatives stated that they were not going to lodge a complaint about the unlawful actions of servicemen of the force agency to the prosecutor’s office as they were afraid of being persecuted by them. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1381 FROM JULY 21, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Sunzha district. Two residents of Sernovodsk are released after torture On 14 July 2005 at about 3.30 pm two residents of the village of Sernovodsk, Ruslan Mamashev (born 1987) and Irkiev Arbi Akhmedovich (born 1987), were released from the Sunzha district police office after they had been detained two hours before that on suspicion of being involved into robbery of the flat belonging to Alikhanov Visita. Both detained men live in the village in Lenin Street. After their release the men stated that the policemen that were interrogating them subjected them to torture, including electric shock. A correspondent of the Information Center at the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society managed to establish the sequence of the events. On 13 July 2005 unidentified people robbed Visita Alikhanov’s flat in Lenin Street of Sernovodsk. According to the robbed man, a computer, a number of CDs and a tape-recorder were stolen from the flat. Alikhanov reported the robbery to the district police office. The following day at about 2 pm the service personnel of Sunzha district police office arrived at the scene of the crime to carry out the investigative actions. The policemen started questioning local people trying to establish the witnesses to the robbery of Alikhanov’s flat. One of the policemen who introduced himself as Isa Isarkiev went into to the Mamashevs’ house. The head of the family Saypi Mamshev was at home at that time. The militiaman inquired where Saypi’s son Ruslan was at that time. As his father didn’t suspect anything, he told that Ruslan was at work and explained where the police could find him. Ruslan earns his living by working at building sites and that day his team was building a house in Asuev Street. Some time later Ruslan Mamashev was detained by the police. Irkiev Arbi was detained together with him. The young men were taken to Sunzha police office where they were interrogated. The interrogation was carried by a chief inspector Visaitov. According to Mamashev and Irkiev’s testimonies the policemen subjected them to torture including electric shock. Having learnt that Ruslan Mamashev was detained, his parents and the victim of the robbery Alikhanov Visita came to Sunzha district police office. After Alikhanov had avouched for the two young men, they were set free. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1382 FROM JULY 22, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Vedeno district. Passport checking in the villages of Vedeno district On 20 and 21 July 2005, the service personnel of the Chechen force agencies carried passport checking in the villages of Makhkety, Khattuni and Eshilkhatoy of the Chechen Vedeno district. Several residents of these villages were detained in the operations (their names have not been revealed). The same evening all the detainees were released. Shelling of Vedeno district In the evening of 21 July 2005 the forested and mountainous area situated between the villages of Khattuni and Makhkety of the Chechen Vedeno district was subjected to shelling by the artillery of the Russian forces. There has been no information about victims among the civilian population caused by shelling. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1383 FROM JULY 22, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Shatoy district. Additional information about a road accident caused by an APC of the federal forces On 21 July 2005 an APC of the federal forces bumped into a garage in the district center of Shatoy of the Chechen Republic, according to the information disseminated by some Russian I Information Agencies, including “The Caucasian Knot” Agency. The Information Center at the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society established the fact that three Russian soldiers perished in the accident, not one. According to local people, the tragedy happened at about 2 pm. The driver of the APC that was heading the Russian motorized column of military vehicles lost control over the vehicle, it went off the road and bumped into the garage that was situated not far from the road. Some other Russian soldiers were injured in the accident. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1384 FROM JULY 22, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Gudermes district. Two people were injured in a road accident in Gudermes district On 20 July 2005 at 8.20 am two cars, GAZ 2411 driven by I.Vashsaev and VAZ 21099 driven by I. Dibarov, collided on the federal Rostov – Baku highway not far from the settlement of Isty-Su of the Chechen Gudermes district. As a result of the road accident both drivers and passengers from both cars were injured and immediately taken to the central hospital of Gudermes district. However, the driver of VAZ 21099 car and his passenger I. Bissamirov died of a loss of blood on their way to hospital. The information was obtained from a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the republic. (From our correspondent) Naur district. Abduction of a resident of the settlement of Naurskaya On 18 July 2005 unidentified armed people abducted a resident of the settlement of Shelkovskaya of the Chechen Naur district Makhadashev Rustam Visadievich (born 1978) from his own house. According to a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the republic, there were fifteen perpetrators in the group. As of the present moment, the destiny and whereabouts of the abducted man remain unestablished. (From our correspondent) Urus-Martan district. A male corpse is discovered in Urus-Martan On 18 July 2005 local people discovered an unidentified male corpse at the North outskirts of the Chechen district center of Urus-Martan. The corpse bore signs of violent death. According to law-enforcement agencies, the man had been killed some five or six days before. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1385 FROM JULY 25, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Vedeno district. New units under Kadyrov’s command are attached to Vedeno district On 23 July 2005 additional units of security service of the Chechen president were sent to the territory of the Chechen Vedeno district. According to the preliminary information, there are some five hundred Kadyrov’s fighters more who are stationed in different settlements of the district of Vedeno. A correspondent of the Information Center at the RCFS reports local people as stating that “kadyrovtsy” are trying to recruit young people at the age from 14 to 30. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1386 FROM JULY 25, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Achkhoy-Martan district. A teenager is condemned for illegal possession of firearms On 23 July 2005 a resident of the village of Samashki of the Chechen Achkhoy-Martan district center (47 Voksal’naya Street) Tovsultanov Isa Akhmedovich (born 1987) was brought before the court regarding the charges incriminated by Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation that is illegal possession of weapon. The court trial was held in the district center of Achkhoy-Martan of the Chechen Republic. Tovsultanov was sentenced to five years and six months of detention in a juvenile correctional convict colony. Speaking to a correspondent of the Information Center at the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, convict’s mother Makka Tovsultanova stated that her son had admitted his guilt being pressed by law-enforcement agents. She added that Isa’s detention and later conviction were allegedly caused by the fact that his father participated in the first war campaign on the side of the Chechen resistance and was killed in a clash. According to the woman, her son has never been involved into armed resistance and she was also sure that the cache didn’t belong to him. It was reported earlier that on 8 June 2005 Tovsultanov Isa was detained in the village of Novyy Sharoy of the Chechen Achkhoy-Martan district (see our releases No 1321 from 11.07.2005 and No1330 17.06.2005). (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1387 FROM JULY 26, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Grozny. New cases of abductions in Chechnya On 24 July 2005 unidentified people in camouflage abducted Mezhiev Magomed Ramzanovich (born 1977). It happened on Pobeda Avenue in Zavodskoy district of Grozny. Mazhiev is a resident of Grozny. He is registered there at 2 Dekabr’skaya Street. A correspondent of the Information Center at the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society reports a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the republic as stating that there were some twenty perpetrators in the group and they were moving around in five cars of unidentified makes. On 22 July some twenty unidentified people abducted Abdullaev Timur Ziyavdinovich (born 1965) who is the owner of the “Euro Service” car wash station situated in Lermontov Street in Grozny. The abductors took him away to an unkown destination from the territory of the station. Abdullaev is registered in Grzony at the address 6 Lermontov Street. According to the information obtained from a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the republic, the abductirs were moving around in three “Niva” cars. On 21 July the Tsunaev brothers, Viskhan (born 1975) and Usman (born 1978) disappeared without any traces left. Their relatives assume that they must have been abducted. As of the present moment, their relatives have no information about the brothers’ whereabouts. (From our correspondent) Sunzha district. An ammunition cache is disclosed in the settlement of Assinovskaya On 25 July 2005 the service personnel of Sunzha district police office disclosed an ammunition cache at the South outskirts of the settlement of Assinovskaya of the Chechen Sunzha district while conducting investigative actions. The cache contained a submachine gun, a grenade cup discharge, a Makarov pistol, twelve grenades, 500 live cartridges, a camouflage uniform, two black cloth masks and a uniform water-proof cape-tent. The information was obtained from a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the Chechen Republic. (From our correspondent) Grozny rural district. A Chechen militiaman is shot dead by unknown people in Chechen-Aul On 21 July 2005 in the village of the Chechen-Aul of the Chechen Grozny rural district unidentified people shot dead a local policeman Sultanov Manas Buvaysarovich (born 1970) and his friend Abubakarov Said Salikhanovich (born 1968). It happened in the yard of the household belonging to Sultanov at the address 7 Matrosov Street. The information was obtained from a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the Chechen Republic. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1388 FROM JULY 27, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Shali district. A special operation in Argun On 27 July 2005 at about 4 am the service personnel of the federal forces in cooperation with the Chechen militia carried a special operation in the town of Argun of the Chechen Shali district. The special operation was carried within the area known as Islamsky settlement and Zavodskaya and Sheripov Streets. According to the preliminary information, some one hundred men at the age from 14 to 70 were detained in the operation. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1389 FROM JULY 27, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Shali district. Destiny of one of the people detained in Argun today remains unknown 27.07.2005. 17:05. Almost all the people detained in a special operation carried today in the town of Argun of the Chechen Shali district have been released. The destiny of one of the detainees remains unknown. This is Ayubov Magomed Abuevich. According to the information obtained by the Information center at the RCFS, Ayubov is a serviceman of the Chechen militia. Today, on 27 July at about 4 am Ayubov was detained among some other residents of the town of Argun in a special operation carried by force agencies. The IC RCFS managed to establish the fact that the special operation in Argun was actually carried by the service personnel of the security service of the president of the Chechen Republic. We reported earlier that the police operation was carried by federal forces in cooperation with Chechen militia (see our release No1388 from 27 July 2005). (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1390 FROM JULY 28, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Vedeno district. A militiaman is killed in a clash that occurred at the village of Darchoy On 26 July 2005 there was an armed clash between the Chechen militia and a group of Chechen combatants in the vicinity of the village of Darchoy of the Chechen Vedeno district. One militiaman was killed in the clash and three more were wounded. The information was obtained from a source within the Ministry of the Interior of the republic. There has been no information about the casualties among the Chechen combatants. (From our correspondent) Shali and Gudermes districts. Two corpses bearing no signs of violent death are disclosed in Chechnya On 25 July 2005 the service personnel of a law-enforcement agency discovered a male corpse on a shore of the Khulkhulau River within the precincts of the village of Avtury of the Chechen Shali district. The corpse was identified as a local resident Bichuev Shanal Mayorbekovich (born 1971). The man lived in the village in Satuev Street. The corpse bore no signs of violent death. Another corpse without any signs of violent death was discovered in the district center of Gudermes of the Chechen Republic. The law-enforcement agencies identified the person as Musaev Magomed Sayd-Magomedovich (born 1953). He lived in Gudermes at the address 182 Orjonikidze Street. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1391 FROM JULY 29, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Grozny. Residents of a temporary accommodation station in Grozny are holding a rally demanding to release an abducted man 29.07.2005. Today’s morning residents of the temporary accommodation station situated at 4 Kol’tsov Street situated in Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny blocked up the Staropromyslovsky highway. They are demanding to release Il’yas Azimov after he was abducted the evening before. At about 9 am the service personnel of Staropromyslovsky district police office pressed the people back to the sideway beating them with their batons and butts of their submachine guns. On 28 July at about 9.35 pm armed men in masks burst into the room where Il’yas Azimov (born 1985) lives together with his mother and some other relatives. The perpetrators spoke Chechen. Having beaten up all the members of the Azimovs, including women, the perpetrators grabbed Il’yas and threatening him with firearms took him away to an unknown destination. The perpetrators were moving around in five cars, including three “UAZ” cars with tinted windows and two “Zhiguli” cars of 7th make. There were no state license plates on the cars. The service personnel of Staropromyslovsky district police office are denying their involvement into Azimov’s forced disappearance. Talking to his mother, they assumed that Il’ays must have been unlawfully detained by the service personnel of Leninsky district police office of the Chechen capital as he is registered a resident of that district. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1392 FROM JULY 29, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Grozny. Resident of a temporary accommodation station is abducted by the police 29.07.2005. 4:20 pm. The Information center at the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society has just received information that people involved into abduction of Il’yas Azimov (born 1985) that happened on 28 July 2005 are the service personnel of Grozny Staropromyslovsky district police office. Azimov is a resident of the temporary accommodation station situated at the address 4 Koltsov Street in Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. Relatives of the abducted man told a reporter of the IC RCFS about that. They are reported as saying that they managed to follow the abductors. According to Il’yas Azimov’s relatives, he was taken to the premises of Staropromyslovsky police office. The same evening Il’as’s parents appealed to the staff of the police office demanding to release their son who is a seriously disabled person. However, the policemen refused to talk to them. They just advised them to come to the police office the following day. When Azimov’s relatives came to the Staropromyslovsky district police office, they were told that Il’yas Azimov had been detained and later moved to the territory of Itum-Kali district. Today’s morning about 9 am people residing in the TAS blocked up Staropromyslovskoye highway demanding to release Il’yas Azimov. He was abducted the day before by unidentified people in masks and camouflage (see our release No1391 from 29.07.2005). However, the police pressed the people to the wayside where they kept their rally. The rally was over at about 10.30. (From our correspondent) PRESS-RELEASE #1393 FROM AUGUST 1, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Vedeno district. Shelling of Vedeno district On 31 July 2005 the forested and mountainous area situated in the vicinity of the village of Dishni-Vedeno of the Chechen Vedeno district was subjected to shelling by Russian artillery. According to testimonies of some local people, the territory was shelled from 10 until 11 pm. There has been no information about casualties among the civilian population. On 30 July the outskirts of the village of Kharachoy of the Chechen Vedeno district were also shelled at daytime. None of the residents of the village suffered. Armed clash near the village of Dargoy On 30 July 2005 there was an armed clash between the service personnel of the security service of the Chechen president and a group of Chechen guerrillas. One of serviceman of the unit that is under Ramzan Kadyrov’s command was killed in the clash. There has been no information about the casualties of the opposite side. (From our correspondent) |